American Hostage Appeals to Obama in Al-Qaida Video

Al-Qaida has released a video of an elderly American hostage pleading
for President Obama to give in to the terrorist group’s demands in
order to save his life.

“My life is in your hands, Mr. President,” 70-year-old Warren
Weinstein says in the undated video, which was published on a militant
message board Sunday night according to the Associated Press. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the demands, then I die.”

Weinstein had been working as the country director in Pakistan for
J.E. Austin Associates, an American firm that advises a variety of
Pakistani businesses and government groups including USAID, when he was
kidnapped last August from his home in Lahore, the Telegraph explains. His abduction came only two days before he was set to move back to the United States.